Upcoming Retreats

2019 Retreats

Strengthen your prayer life by discovering and engaging in forms of prayer that resonate with your personality and learning style, and also challenge yourself with different modes of prayer. We will learn about your prayer style and the many ways to pray using creativity, silence, words, images, nature, movement, music and more. We will have times of silence to practice new prayer styles as well.

Jodi Blazek Gehr, is a Benedictine oblate, SoulCollage® Facilitator, retreat leader, and high school educator. Jodi writes two blogs at SoulFullyYou.net and BeingBenedictine.com. Call Servite Center at 402-571-2547 to register.

December 7-8, 2019: Advent Retreat at St. Benedict Center

2020 Retreats

“My take away from this retreat: I never thought about using my artistic talent to express and discover what it brings out spiritually. And I certainly didn’t think about it as a way to deepen my relationship with God. It was the perfect experience for me to have and I will definitely continue with Soul Collage.”~Sandra Renner, Prairie Healer blog

“Loved this weekend. It was everything I hoped it would be when I signed up for it. Beautiful facility (St. Benedict Center), warm, peaceful, soulful.”

“I feel that it’s really inspired me to create again. I’m so afraid of making a mistake and I realized you just have to do it because you never know where your creation will go–it takes a life of its own anyway.”

“Jodi was wonderful. She certainly is an excellent director. Keep her coming back for more retreats.”

“(Jodi has) a gift for presenting and sharing and also a gift for bringing spiritual things to people in a very practical way. I have been working on some collages myself and enjoying it immensely! It seems to be a good way for me to express myself and enter into a prayerful mode. It is relaxing and freeing. I am usually a perfectionist when it comes to art and creativity, but I seem to be able to “let go” with this form of expression, and that is a really good thing for me.”~Denise Lopez

“As a first retreat, this was an exceptional experience. Affirmative of different ways to pray, to connection, to finding ways to gratitude, to visual express of contemplation.”

“Profound perspectives to consider and try. Loved the retreat—brava.”

“Jodi did an awesome job! She introduced and let us practice a variety of different ways to pray. She helped me to see that somethings I do are actually a form of prayer. My awareness of what prayer can be has been expanded.”

“This was a truly excellent workshop. I feel blessed to have found the SBC. I loved the discussion and especially the hands-on activities facilitated by our presenter.”

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We are friends who have not yet met except here; I wish we were next door neighbors; I am not an Oblate YET, but I am a member of the Holy Disorder of Dancing Monks via the internet that brings me together with other artists/spirituality and highest good living around the world. I am a SoulCollage® facilitator and a workshop and retreat presenter. You give me courage to continue and build along this path. I am at http://www.napkinwriter.wordpress.com